{"id":37817,"date":"2020-10-23T19:42:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-23T19:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/56436027-e451-4d65-b821-2d9f7a414b27"},"modified":"2020-10-23T19:42:00","modified_gmt":"2020-10-23T19:42:00","slug":"us-treasury-sanctions-russian-research-institute-behind-triton-malware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/us-treasury-sanctions-russian-research-institute-behind-triton-malware\/","title":{"rendered":"US Treasury sanctions Russian research institute behind Triton malware"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"image image-original shortcode-image\"><span class=\"img aspect-set \"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/zdnet1.cbsistatic.com\/hub\/i\/2018\/10\/23\/101fe70e-8fc9-4e1c-9766-e38f853296d2\/cniihm.png\" class alt=\"cniihm.png\"><\/span><figcaption><span class=\"caption\"><\/p>\n<p>CNIIHM, Moscow<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span class=\"credit\"> Image: Google Maps <\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The US Treasury Department announced sanctions today against a Russian research institute for its role in developing Triton, a malware strain designed to attack industrial equipment.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relatedContent alignRight\" readability=\"8.0321285140562\">\n<h3 class=\"heading\"> <span class=\"int\">Special feature<\/span> <\/h3>\n<div class=\"thumb\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/topic\/cyberwar-and-the-future-of-cybersecurity\/\" data-omniture-track=\"moduleClick\" data-omniture-track-data=\"{&quot;moduleInfo&quot;: &quot;pinbox&quot;, &quot;pageType&quot;: &quot;article&quot;}\" data-vanity-rewritten=\"true\"> <span class=\"img \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/zdnet3.cbsistatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2016\/09\/01\/fa215859-76c8-4ab7-8b55-56a42e0d8950\/resize\/220x165\/cf651a47272fd8abf79b87f4b45ba3c4\/09-2016-special-feature-cover-art.jpg\" class alt=\"Cyberwar and the Future of Cybersecurity\" height=\"165\" width=\"220\"><\/span> <\/a> <\/div>\n<p class=\"title\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/topic\/cyberwar-and-the-future-of-cybersecurity\/\" data-omniture-track=\"moduleClick\" data-omniture-track-data=\"{&quot;moduleInfo&quot;: &quot;pinbox&quot;, &quot;pageType&quot;: &quot;article&quot;}\" data-vanity-rewritten=\"true\"> Cyberwar and the Future of Cybersecurity <\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"dek\">Today&#8217;s security threats have expanded in scope and seriousness. There can now be millions &#8212; or even billions &#8212; of dollars at risk when information security isn&#8217;t handled properly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/topic\/cyberwar-and-the-future-of-cybersecurity\/\" data-omniture-track=\"moduleClick\" data-omniture-track-data=\"{&quot;moduleInfo&quot;: &quot;pinbox&quot;, &quot;pageType&quot;: &quot;article&quot;}\" data-vanity-rewritten=\"true\">Read More<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Sanctions were levied today against the&nbsp;<strong>State Research Center of the Russian Federation FGUP Central Scientific Research Institute of Chemistry and Mechanics<\/strong>&nbsp;(also known as CNIIHM or TsNIIKhM).<\/p>\n<p>A&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/fireeye-links-russian-research-lab-to-triton-ics-malware-attacks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">FireEye report<\/a>&nbsp;published in October 2018 identified CNIIHM as the possible author of the Triton malware.<\/p>\n<p>The&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/malpedia.caad.fkie.fraunhofer.de\/details\/win.triton\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" data-component=\"externalLink\">Triton malware<\/a>, also known as Trisis or HatMan, is a piece of malware that was designed to specifically target a certain type of industrial control system (ICS) equipment \u2014 namely, Schneider Electric Triconex Safety Instrumented System (SIS) controllers.<\/p>\n<p>According to technical reports from&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fireeye.com\/blog\/threat-research\/2017\/12\/attackers-deploy-new-ics-attack-framework-triton.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" data-component=\"externalLink\">FireEye<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/dragos.com\/blog\/trisis\/TRISIS-01.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" data-component=\"externalLink\">Dragos<\/a>, and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.symantec.com\/blogs\/threat-intelligence\/triton-malware-ics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" data-component=\"externalLink\">Symantec<\/a>, the malware was distributed via phishing campaigns. Once it infected a workstation, it would search for SIS controllers on a victim&#8217;s network, and then attempt to modify the controller&#8217;s settings.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers said Triton contained instructions that could either shut down a production process or allow SIS-controlled machinery to work in an unsafe state, creating a risk of explosions and risk to human operators and their lives.<\/p>\n<h3>Triton almost caused an explosion at a Saudi petrochemical plant<\/h3>\n<p>The malware was first spotted after it was used successfully in 2017 during an intrusion at a Saudi petrochemical plant owned by Tasnee, a privately owned Saudi company,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/03\/15\/technology\/saudi-arabia-hacks-cyberattacks.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-component=\"externalLink\">where it almost cause an explosion<\/a>.<\/p>\n<section class=\"sharethrough-top\" data-component=\"medusaContentRecommendation\" data-medusa-content-recommendation-options=\"{&quot;promo&quot;:&quot;promo_zd_recommendation_sharethrough_top_in_article_desktop&quot;,&quot;spot&quot;:&quot;dfp-in-article&quot;}\"> <\/section>\n<p>Since then, the malware has been deployed against other companies. Furthermore, the group behind the malware (known as&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/attack.mitre.org\/groups\/G0088\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" data-component=\"externalLink\">TEMP.Veles or Xenotime<\/a>) has also been seen &#8220;scanning and probing at least 20 electric utilities in the United States for vulnerabilities,&#8221; the US Treasury said today in a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/home.treasury.gov\/news\/press-releases\/sm1162\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" data-component=\"externalLink\">press release<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s sanctions prohibit US entities from engaging with CNIIHM and also seize any of the research institute&#8217;s US-based assets.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Russian Government continues to engage in dangerous cyber activities aimed at the United States and our allies,&#8221; said Secretary Steven T. Mnuchin. &#8220;This Administration will continue to aggressively defend the critical infrastructure of the United States from anyone attempting to disrupt it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media-source\">\n<div class=\"twitterContainer\" readability=\"5.675\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"5.675\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This style of sanctioning is significant and honestly entirely appropriate against those involved in the first ever cyber attack to intentionally try to kill people in civilian infrastructure. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TRISIS?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" data-component=\"externalLink\">#TRISIS<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TRITON?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" data-component=\"externalLink\">#TRITON<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dVzAn0kusq\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-component=\"externalLink\">https:\/\/t.co\/dVzAn0kusq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Robert M. Lee (@RobertMLee) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RobertMLee\/status\/1319713347286274056?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" data-component=\"externalLink\">October 23, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Today&#8217;s Treasury sanctions end a week from hell for Russian state-sponsored hacking groups. On Monday, the US Department of Justice <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/us-charges-russian-hackers-behind-notpetya-killdisk-olympicdestroyer-attacks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">filed charges against six hackers part of the Sandworm group<\/a>, believed to have created the NotPetya, KillDisk, BlackEnergy, and OlympicDestroyer malware.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/fbi-cisa-russian-hackers-breached-us-government-networks-exfiltrated-data\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">exposed a recent hacking campaign<\/a> of a Russian hacking group known as Energetic Bear.<\/p>\n<p>On the same day, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/eu-sanctions-russia-over-2015-german-parliament-hack\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">EU also imposed sanctions<\/a> on two Russian intelligence officers for their role in the 2015 German Parliament hack.<\/p>\n<p>But as several security researchers pointed out today on Twitter, shortly after the Treasury announcement, the US may not have the moral high-ground, mainly because the US pioneered attacks against industrial systems through its work and deployment of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stuxnet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-component=\"externalLink\">the Stuxnet malware<\/a> against Iran&#8217;s nuclear program in 2010.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media-source\">\n<div class=\"twitterContainer\" readability=\"5.9157303370787\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" readability=\"5.4606741573034\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">They\u2026 uh\u2026 the Treasury realizes that we don\u2019t really have the high ground to stand on here\u2026 right?<\/p>\n<p>*cough* Stuxnet *cough*<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 MikeTalonNYC (@MikeTalonNYC) <a 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